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• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That’s all.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

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• A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

  William Faulkner

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Writer, Afraid, Writing

• A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

  Ring Lardner

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• If you wish to be a writer, write.

  Epictetus

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  Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

  Norman Mailer

  Topics in Failure, Humor

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• I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.

  Peter De Vries

  Topics in Humor, Job, Love

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• Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

  Raymond Chandler

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  Tags in Fiction, Write, Writer, Everything, Need, Just, Little, Desire, Writing

• The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.

  Russell Baker

  Topics in Work

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• Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

  Christopher James Hampton

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  You are either born a writer or you are not.

  Cormac McCarthy

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• I’m not the slowest writer that you know.

  David Remnick

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• When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

  Ernest Hemingway

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  A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

  Richard Bach

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  The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

  Ken MacLeod

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  The role of a writer is not to say, what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

  Anaïs Nin

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• If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

  Stephen King

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• I’m a schoolteacher and a writer. So that’s what I do.

  Bruce Jackson

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• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a ‘high suspense’ writer.

  Iris Johansen

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• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  Iris Johansen

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  Tags in Writer, Reader